I didn’t know that Octopi were so mean. They are almost as bad as cats.
But you can see in the video they just bash and bully the fish around them. It is not that they are in combat mode, they are just ornery and impatient with the fish as lesser beings.
I blame it on the schools (see what I did there??).
Researchers observe Red Sea octopuses ‘punching’ fish that compete for food
